Upgrading to Windows 10 and then going back to 7?

pappa_golf

yup , backup your data , goto https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 scroll down to the media creation tool , run it and reboot , custom instillation , delete all partitions , create new , and enjoy a non hybrid ****up

cloud_dog

This may be a little of a naive question (but I'll ask anyway)... I assume I'll have to re-install any other software I've installed?

pappa_golf

yes you will , backup your personal stuff and do a new CLEAN install , check that the upgrade has been registered first

Oblivion

And this is progress? I always thought a computer was meant to save people time ... where did it all go so horribly wrong?

pappa_golf

Oblivion wrote: »

And this is progress? I always thought a computer was meant to save people time ... where did it all go so horribly wrong?

when IBM brought out the "modular" computer and allowed people to go inside

cloud_dog

pappa_golf wrote: »

yes you will , backup your personal stuff and do a new CLEAN install , check that the upgrade has been registered first

How do I do that? It's been upgraded for a week but how do I verify that?

pappa_golf

box on right bottom of taskbar/all settings/ update and security/activation , should read that it has "digital entitlement" , this allows you to clean or swop the drive and reload a clean setup and just skip the insert ser No section


if you have backed up , or trying with a new drive , please use custom setup and delete all old partitions

prowla

OK, I ran updates on a number of machines over the weekend.

Going to Settings -> Updates -> Activation shows that Windows 10 is activated on the computer with a digital entitlement.

Apparently if you then do a fresh install of Windows 10 from scratch, you skip the licence key entry and it will pick up the entitlement.

I'm not sure what information it uses, but hopefully it's not the hard disk's details, as that's the most likely thing to be replaced over time.

C_Mababejive

A friend has a win7 lappy. It is showing reserve win 10 upgrade which will be available after July29th . Its had all ins auto updates. How can i force the issue?

grumpycrab

"Upgrade now" at https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10